Personnel Committee recommends multiple appointments; Amanda Birch slated for Planning Commission and Opioid steering committee

The Alpena County Personnel Committee recommended approval of a slate of appointments and reappointments to county boards and commissions during its Dec. 2 meeting. The committee moved to approve the candidate list on a motion by Commissioner John Kozlowski, seconded by Commissioner Todd Britton; the motion carried.

Amanda Birch was interviewed for the Opioid Remediation Fund Steering Committee, and the minutes note that Allen Smith was not present for his interview. The committee discussed making Amanda Birch a member of the Planning Commission (Community and Economic Development) in addition to the Opioid Remediation Fund Steering Committee.

The minutes list the following recommended appointments/reappointments (as recorded in the meeting minutes): Jennifer Graham — Library Board; Barbara Cornell — Dept. of Health & Human Services; Kevin Osbourne — Planning Commission (Transportation, Public Works and Safety); Chuck LeFebvre — Planning Commission (Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use); Amanda Birch — Planning Commission (Community and Economic Development) and Opioid Remediation Fund Steering Committee; Charles Hein — Road Commission; Cameron Augustyn — Road Commission. The minutes include term dates adjacent to many names but several of those date entries in the record have garbled formatting and are not unambiguously readable; the committee recorded the recommendation as Action Item #2.

The minutes do not include recorded vote tallies for the motion to approve the candidate list. The record does not indicate when the recommended appointments will take effect or whether the appointments require additional county-board confirmation beyond the committee recommendation.